{"id":56,"date":"2012-04-26T14:01:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kent-xcri\/?p=56"},"modified":"2012-04-26T14:01:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:01:25","slug":"another-technical-sprint-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kent-xcri\/2012\/04\/26\/another-technical-sprint-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Another technical sprint begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_59\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kent-xcri\/files\/2012\/04\/IMAG0157_001.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-59\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kent-xcri\/files\/2012\/04\/IMAG0157_001-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bare tree reflected in pond\" width=\"130\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-59\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue skies reflected in a campus pond<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today marks the beginning of another two week technical sprint on the project. This follows the inaugural Steering Group held on Monday, which endorsed the team&#8217;s recommendation that we should\u00a0 develop a new Programmes Factory from the ground up using PHP. A couple of days later we held a very succesful planning session with\u00a0 our colleagues from EMS and took delivery of\u00a0 Angela Watson&#8217;s excellent handiwork &#8211; the core list of data fields.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Fendley, our scrum master\u00a0 then prepared user story cards from what turned out to be a very useful planning meeting. The project\u00a0 start period was always going to feel a bit slow with lots of talking and apparently not much happening &#8211; though this was a very necessary stage. It now feels that we are entering a much more &#8216;hands on&#8217; phase.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of this sprint we should have created the basic data model, though we expect to have to tweak it a little as the project progresses, and have created a &#8216;proof of concept&#8217; user interface form. This will allow us to seed the database with test data and to perform some early load testing.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned before we want to deliver\u00a0 the application incrementally to our customers and seek reviews and endorsements for each stage of development. Here&#8217;s hoping for a suceesful retrospective at the end of this sprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the beginning of another two week technical sprint on the project. This follows the inaugural Steering Group held on Monday, which endorsed the team&#8217;s recommendation that we should\u00a0 develop a new Programmes Factory from the ground up using PHP. A couple of days later we held a very succesful planning session with\u00a0 our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":787,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kent-xcri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kent-xcri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kent-xcri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kent-xcri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/787"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kent-xcri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kent-xcri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kent-xcri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kent-xcri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kent-xcri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kent-xcri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}